Business Planning Manager

Trách nhiệm chính

• Triaging incoming requests, meetings, and topics to protect the CEO’s attention and reduce cognitive load.
• Preparing concise briefs before important meetings: context, relevant data, decisions required, open questions, and recommended next steps.
• Capturing decisions and commitments, ensuring actions have clear owners and deadlines.
• Maintaining a reliable view of the Managing Director’s priorities, pending decisions, and follow‑ups; surfacing what needs attention before it becomes urgent.
• Improving recurring leadership routines and information flow so fewer issues require the Managing Director’s direct involvement.
• Handling sensitive information with sound judgment and discretion.
• Driving selected priority projects: stepping into high‑priority initiatives lacking a natural owner or needing stronger coordination.
• Translating ambiguous goals into practical plans with scope, milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, and success measures.
• Coordinating across sales, product, technology, content, and operations teams.
• Tracking progress, challenging unclear ownership, removing blockers, and escalating issues with proposed solutions.
• Stabilizing initiatives, documenting how they should run, and handing over to a permanent owner.
• Building lightweight project disciplines that improve execution without unnecessary process.
• Supporting business planning and strategic decisions: structuring business questions, gathering internal/external information, and turning analysis into clear recommendations.
• Building business cases, scenarios, forecasts, and simple financial models to evaluate opportunities and trade‑offs.
• Supporting annual planning, KPI setting, business reviews, and resource‑prioritization discussions.
• Preparing decision papers and leadership materials that distinguish facts, assumptions, risks, options, and recommendations.
• Monitoring selected business and execution indicators, identifying emerging issues, and helping leaders convert insight into action.
• Bringing an independent point of view while recognizing final accountability remains with the relevant business leader.

Yêu cầu công việc

• Approximately 4–6 years of experience in management consulting, business operations, business planning, strategy, project or program management, a CEO/founder’s office, or another fast‑paced analytical role. Exceptional candidates outside this range may also be considered.
• Strong structured problem‑solving skills: ability to turn an ambiguous question into a clear issue tree, work plan, or decision.
• Solid analytical ability, including comfort with spreadsheets, business metrics, and basic financial modelling.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in Vietnamese and English, with the ability to synthesize complex information into concise executive materials.
• Strong project‑management habits: clear ownership, disciplined follow‑through, early risk identification, and practical escalation.
• Good judgment and discretion, especially when working with confidential business or people matters.
• Confidence to ask difficult questions and follow up with senior stakeholders, combined with humility and respect.
• High ownership and adaptability; no task is beneath you when it helps move an important outcome forward.

Yêu cầu ưu tiên

• Familiarity with digital advertising, technology platforms, media, or B2B commercial organizations is helpful but not required.

Thông tin khác

• What success looks like: In the first 3 months, you will understand Adtima’s business model, key products, leaders, operating rhythms, and major priorities; the Managing Director will have a clearer, more reliable system for priorities, meeting preparation, decisions, and follow‑ups; leadership actions will be captured and closed with noticeably less chasing from the CEO; you will have taken ownership of at least one well‑defined cross‑functional initiative. Within 6–12 months, the Managing Director will spend less time on low‑value coordination and preventable follow‑up; important decisions will reach the Managing Director with clearer context, stronger analysis, and explicit trade‑offs; the projects you support will show visible progress, faster resolution of blockers, and clear accountability; at least one priority initiative will have been successfully stabilized and handed over to a long‑term owner; senior stakeholders will see you as a trusted, objective, and highly dependable partner.
• What this role is — and is not: This role combines business planning, CEO decision support, strategic problem‑solving, and hands‑on delivery. Some work will be highly analytical; some will involve coordination, meeting preparation, and persistent follow‑through. The mix will change with the needs of the business. This is not an administrative executive‑assistant role; you will not manage the CEO’s calendar, inbox, travel, or personal logistics. You will help determine which business matters require the CEO’s attention, ensure those matters are decision‑ready, and drive the resulting actions to completion. You will not own every company initiative, act as a substitute for functional leaders, or make decisions on their behalf. Your role is to create clarity, strengthen accountability, and temporarily step into important gaps—not to become a permanent bottleneck.
• Why join: Work directly with the Managing Director on consequential business and organizational questions; gain unusually broad exposure across strategy, commercial operations, product, technology, and execution; learn how a scaled Vietnamese digital business navigates a rapidly changing advertising market; build a strong foundation for a future path in business leadership, strategy and operations, or ownership of a business function.